This entry is a special one for me. It's the 100th entry of my Writing in the Bachs! Woo hoo (pause while I do happy dance). Thanks to everyone who follows, and to those who have read and commented on any of this chaos stew. I have decided to include several quotes about writing that speak to me, and then a poem that was inspired by a past Magpie, but that I didn't enter there. It has also been edited with influence from comments by the Facial Expression Poetry Group I have joined.
Writing is both mask and unveiling. -E.B. White
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. -Terri Guillemets
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. -E.L. Doctorow
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -Thomas Merton
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On the Threshold
hair and bed sheets in disarray
she rushes down the stairs
a fluttering in her chest
as she opens the door
she wonders -
is this a beginning
or an end?
Writing is both mask and unveiling. -E.B. White
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too. -Terri Guillemets
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. -E.L. Doctorow
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -Thomas Merton
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On the Threshold
hair and bed sheets in disarray
she rushes down the stairs
a fluttering in her chest
as she opens the door
she wonders -
is this a beginning
or an end?
Thank you all again!
